It had tripped because of confinement: this is the most plausible explanation for the cracking Sunday at Sannois of a 57-year-old engineer. Suspected of having exerted violence on his wife, he had pointed the police with his 9 mm, at the risk of triggering a response from the police.
After spending the first two nights in police custody, this member of a sports shooting club and owner of a dozen weapons legally, was brought before Tuesday morning. His weapons, a dozen automatic pistols and rifles, duly declared, were seized. The prosecution can decide to confiscate them.
+ 70% in the police zone, + 30% in the gendarmerie zone
This case is not isolated in Val-d’Oise, a department which, like the others in the Paris region, is experiencing an outbreak of this type of conflict. “We have seen a very strong increase in police or gendarmerie interventions for family disputes”, underlines Sébastien Jallet, Prefect Delegate for Equal Opportunities.
“Between March 26 and April 26, we counted more than 70% increase in interventions for this reason in the areas under the responsibility of the police, more than 33% increase in the gendarmerie area. Whatever the nature of these disputes, domestic violence, neighborhood disturbance … this shows that there is more tension, conflict. “
In echo, another worrying trend is noted, that relating to the mistreatment of children. “The worrying information on abused children, which comes from child welfare or associations, is rising very sharply,” added the prefect delegate. “We have seen a clear increase since the return from school holidays. But we do not reach the levels outside confinement ”, indicates the departmental council.
Paradoxically, complaints of domestic violence have decreased by 25%
These elements, gathered on the occasion of the last departmental committee for assistance to victims, suggest a significant increase in domestic violence. However, the number of complaints from women victims of violence has dropped significantly: – 25%. “We find it difficult to grasp this contradiction, with on the one hand a very marked increase in interventions, and the decrease in complaints. It is a paradox that we must resolve by mobilizing all of us, by strengthening our level of vigilance ”, underlines Sébastien Jallet.
Hence the project to increase the possibilities for victims to call for help. In addition to 17, it is possible to go through 39 19, the free and anonymous number of Violences femmes infos, now accessible from Monday to Saturday, from 9 am to 7 pm. A simple SMS can also suffice via 114, initially dedicated to deaf or hard of hearing people.
The police meet residents
In its information campaign, the Val-d’Oise prefecture also indicates the possibility of using 119, the number for children in danger, free, open 24 hours a day, every day. It also presents the phones of the departmental social services and finally, the Chat is open (arretonsles violences.gouv.fr) to chat with discretion with the police.
These resources are in addition to the pharmacies that have been mobilized to listen to the victims of domestic violence. “Several have thus signaled themselves in the department through this intermediary,” specifies Sébastien Jallet, who also recalls the initiative of the gendarmes to go and meet the inhabitants in the shopping centers of L’Isle-Adam, Moisselles and Magny, as that of the association CIDFF, in Aéroville. “We are going to reproduce this initiative at Trois-Fontaines in Cergy from May 11, as well as at Sarcelles, in Myplace, from this Wednesday. “
